Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In February 2014, President Victor Yanukovych was ousted by pro-EuroâAtlantic members of parliament after he used security forces to crack down on popular protests against his attempt to tighten ties with Russia.
They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late â much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are presumably wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt. The term probably came as a translation of the Latin dens sapientiae.
Wisdom teeth become impacted when there is not enough room in the jaws to allow for all of the teeth to erupt into the mouth. Because the wisdom teeth are the last to erupt, due to insufficient room in the jaws to accommodate more teeth, the wisdom teeth become stuck in the jaws, i.e., impacted.